Judging by a2bDirect whitepaper, their price optimisation proposal seems to be not transparent. This is number one issue in uber-like applications, that is called so: if you don't have great deal of transportation historical and current data you will not be able to calculate price offer! We have technology of forecasting and data from our BIG partners (Formag Fowarding (GTI), SBS, Hellman and we are in talks to Eurosib, Ahlers etc.) and our pricing model contains future Dutch auctions. Lets compare A2B and GTI (both are working in Ukraine, but GTI is No1 by market share with significant history).
We focus on multimodal transportation (i.e. truck-plane-ship-port) that reduces price or delivery time, when a2bDirect mentions only truck-container solution. Therefore, our ICO target is twice and a half bigger then A2B’s one, for which we plan worldwide expansion and all types of transportation available in 6 years.
What we see in comparison with A2B is that our team is obviously strong in the industrial multimodal experience. We are the multimodal-based crew with an understanding of where blockchain can be effectively utilised for the industry as a whole as well as for each of its constituent part. Our team of experts are include Hellmann East Europe company, Global Transport Investments represented by Formag Forwarding and SB Solutions with extensive experience in the field of IT solutions for logistics. A2B repels from tracking and adds a block-chain-based process to it. Both approaches have a right to exist, and each of them will find his client.
We already have multimodal experience as the logistic IT solutions that are part of the IMMLA code have been tested and implemented in the B2B segment by our SBSolution team. We are confident in their quality and in the professionalism of our crew as well as in the capabilities of our product in the B2C and C2C markets.
Overall, we perceive the emergence of two ICOs as a positive signal as it indicates that the market is ready for such solutions both technologically and labour-wise. The presence of a rival environment means only one thing: as a result, the launched solutions will prove even better for the market and, even more so for investors, than it could be if there were no competition.
The logistics market is huge, one of the largest in the world. We expect that new blockchain solutions will appear. However, the first projects will become leaders, as they will set flagship benchmarks for the rest.